The people who run Ottawa's hospitals earned hefty pay increases in 2008, according to the province's so called "sunshine list," which discloses all salaries over $100,000 per year.
Jack Kitts, president of the Ottawa Hospital, leads the pack with a salary of more than $618,000 per year. Gerald Savoie, who recently resigned from the Monfort Hospital, followed at $475,000.
Michel Bilodeau at CHEO, Tom Schonberg at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital and Rob Cushman of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network are also on the list.
"If we take a look at (Ontario Public Service) workers, those that have made it on the list this year have done so as a result of about a one per cent increase in their pay," Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday.
There are 53,572 Ontario public sector workers on the list -- an increase of 10,000 people since 2007.
"I think it's only natural that the sunshine list does keep growing given what happens to salaries and inflation and the like," McGuinty said.
Jim Hankinson, CEO of Ontario Power Generation, topped the 2008 list, earning $2,485,000.
The so-called "sunshine list" began in the 1996 during the days of former Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris.
It lists everyone in the Ontario public service and broader public sector who make more than $100,000 annually. Those broader agencies include hospitals, municipalities, schools and post-secondary institutions, and government-owned energy companies.
With a report from CTV's Paul Bliss and files from The Canadian Press
